The word coercion comes from the Latin "coerco", "coerciōnis" which refers to the action and effect of repressing, holding or forcing, lexically formed by the union prefix "co", plus the root "arcere" which means "to contain" or "save" and the suffix "cion" for action and effect. The Royal Spanish Academy exposes the word coercion as an imposition or push exerted on a certain individual to force their will or conduct. For its part, coercion can be manifested as coercion through the imposition of a penalty or sanction, which could well be legal or illegal, in order to condition or restrict the conduct of people.
In most cases, coercion is based on intimidation or warning through the use of physical, verbal or other violence to restrict or subordinate the type of behavior of a subject. It is generally stated that the legislation works through coercion, since the threat or warning of sanction allows people to refrain from committing illicit acts for fear of the negative consequences that this indicates, established by law.
There are various types of coercion that among them can be mentioned legal coercion, international coercion, cyber coercion.
The legal is a State of Law, its action is fully regulated by rules and precepts that include a series of prohibitions, penalties in such case that these are not met.
The international, usually includes peaceful coercion, which are threats of diplomatic or economic sanction.
And cybernetics has the peculiarity that encompasses sanctions for misuse of technological mechanisms and computer tools such as emails, chat, blog, text messages, making videos on web pages, which can be disclosed in order to ridicule to others.
